Autumn is my favorite season - crisp, cool air, lovely sweater weather, and the vibrant colors that surround us. Most of all, I love the colorful leaves. From golden yellow to earth green, the autumn reds, oranges, purples, and deep greens make a lovely carpet on which to walk on those beautiful autumn days.

As a newer knitter, you may be looking for ways to expand your skills. A Simple, Little Vortex Shawl could be for you. Using a basic triangle shape – knit in garter stitch and adding a few asymmetric increases and decreases creates a vortex shawl shape – sort of a twisty, curved elongated triangle that fits very nicely around your neck and shou...

The Royal Bee 2022 Holiday Buzz is a colorful scarf or wrap knit using a 2-color bee stitch with blocks of 2-color stripes and solids. This deceptively easy colorwork pattern is available in 3 sizes. Size 1 (scarf) uses yarn from The Royal Bee 2022 Hanukkah Kit, or about 400 yards of fingering weight yarn in a main color, and 9 mini-hanks (90 y...

The Optimist’s Cowl is a bandana-style cowl in cheerful stripes with an i-cord tassel at the tip. It is knitted flat, then seamed.

Sometimes I just fall in love with a skein of yarn. This was such a case. I was scrolling through one of my knitting newsletters, and I ran across a photo of Malabrigo Caracol. Now, I’ve seen this yarn plenty of times before, in person and in photographs, but there was something about it that day…the thick and thin yarn in brilliant colors enca...

PLEASE NOTE: I HAVE UPDATED THIS PATTERN AS OF 6/27/20 TO ADJUST SOME OF THE EYELET ROWS. MAKE SURE YOU ARE WORKING FROM THE MOST RECENT REVISION. THANKS!!

I love Golden State Warriors basketball! As we gear up for the 2019-20 season, we’ve lost a significant portion of our core team and Oakland’s Oracle Arena is no more. But, hey – it’s the Warriors, and we have a golden opportunity to celebrate new beginnings!

I love a knitting challenge, but I also love simple knits that are very meditative and easy on the mind and the soul. No Panic Knitting’s Soothingly Simple Shawl allows the new knitter to explore a sideways triangle shawl construction. It is a very easy knit for more experienced folks who want simplicity and ease. Think baseball or basketball k...

Calling All Basketball Fans! Let’s Knit the 2019 NBA Season - Warriors Style! A Golden State of Mind - Go Warriors! is a cowl designed for either fingering weight or DK-weight yarn. This two-color cowl is knit flat with options for beads, seaming, and cast-on methods. It’s perfect for all experience levels.

I love playing with colors, stitch patterns and mini-skeins of yarn. Blue Sky Fibers’ Woolstok yarn is a lofty, light and squishy worsted weight yarn which is a dream to knit. The colors are breathtaking. I ran across their 21-color mini-skein set and just about lost it. This cowl features all 21 colors of Woolstok in alternating blocks of rib ...

La Luce (“The Light” in Italian) is a triangle-shaped shawlette in vibrant fingering weight yarn. I used LunaPurlYarns self-striping sock yarn in the Butterfly Nebula colorway. Electric eye-popping colors with a bit of grey tossed in for calm. Love them. Looking at the skein makes me so happy. This shawlette features three options for the edgin...

Hooray, hurrah! My favorite yarn shop - A Yarn Less Raveled - is five years old! In honor of this wonderful shop, I present The Big, Squishy Anniversary Cowl. It’s a fast, fun knit, in a new, lovely aran-weight yarn (the Fibre Co. Arranmore) which the shop has recently begun carrying. This cowl features a provisional cast-on; and a 3-needle bin...

The Sea Ranch Shawl. A simple cozy triangle shawl with an optional crocheted border made with a gorgeous bulky yarn and large needles using garter and stockinette stitches. I used Malabrigo Chunky and Malabrigo Mecha; this would also be great in Madelinetosh Tosh Home or ASAP, with a Tosh Vintage Border.

Holey Batwing! - A generously sized modified triangle shape wrap with batwing edges. Features mostly garter stitch with an eyelet lace section. Knit on large needles with bulky and lace weight yarns held together.

Mountain Colors packages their beautiful yarns in just stunning color combinations in Perspectives mini-skein kits. This triangle-shaped wrap with an optional crocheted border uses simple increases to produce a shoulder-hugging elongated shape. This pattern is highly customizable. I used worsted and aran weight yarns; however, you can use other...

One of the best parts of working in a yarn shop is when the new yarns arrive. The inspiration for this pattern was opening a recently delivered box, and discovering all the lovely colors of Madelinetosh Merino Light in the bite-size packages of Unicorn Tails.

A cowl knit with rib edging, stockinette and garter stitch sections,